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1897 · Khreshchatyk, near Bessarabska Square Khreshchatyk and the Grand Hotel National Khreshchatyk on an 1897 postcard: the Grand Hotel National on the right, horse cabs on the cobbles and utility poles and wires above the street.
1938 · Khreshchatyk at Arkhitektora Horodetskoho Street Khreshchatyk before the war The corner of Khreshchatyk and Horodetskoho Street in 1938, with pre-war buildings and a line of trees. In September 1941 the buildings on this corner were destroyed by explosions…
1942 · Khreshchatyk at Arkhitektora Horodetskoho Street Khreshchatyk in ruins The ruined Main Post Office and Grand Hotel seen from Horodetskoho Street in 1942. The rubble on Khreshchatyk was not cleared during the occupation. On the right, the same spot in…
1943 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk after liberation November 1943: Soviet infantry march along the ruined Khreshchatyk after the liberation of Kyiv. The street was rebuilt from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
1963 · Khreshchatyk metro station Khreshchatyk metro station entrance The glazed surface entrance of Khreshchatyk metro station in 1963, three years after Kyiv's first metro line opened. The entrance still operates in the same place, in a building…
1974 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk, 1 May 1974 Khreshchatyk on 1 May 1974, with its post-war buildings and a broad line of trees along the street.
1980s · Khreshchatyk (odd-numbered side) Khreshchatyk at night Khreshchatyk in the evening in the 1980s, with festive lights on the odd-numbered side of the street and wet tarmac.
early 1870s · European Square Khreshchatyk from the Tsar's Garden …Garden towards today's European Square and the start of Khreshchatyk. The "Ivan" fountain still stands here before its 1871 rebuilding, surrounded by low manor-style houses. Today…
1888 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk in 1888 Khreshchatyk in the late 1880s, still without trams (the electric tram arrived in Kyiv in 1892), with horse-drawn carriages and the first multi-storey apartment buildings. Almost…
c. 1905 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk with trams Khreshchatyk at the beginning of the 20th century: shop signs, tram tracks, overhead line poles and cobbles. On the left are Nos. 50, 48 and 46 in the numbering of the time…
1928 · Khreshchatyk / Tarasa Shevchenka Boulevard Khreshchatyk in Man with a Movie Camera A tram crosses Khreshchatyk from Shevchenko Boulevard, a frame from Dziga Vertov's celebrated film Man with a Movie Camera, largely shot in Kyiv at the VUFKU studio. The view from…
2001 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk traffic Khreshchatyk in summer 2001: Ladas alongside foreign cars, chestnut trees and trolleybus wires. Since then Khreshchatyk has been closed to cars and given over to pedestrians at…
1920 · Khreshchatyk Parade on Khreshchatyk A military parade on Khreshchatyk on 9 May 1920, during the Polish–Soviet War, with columns marching past the street's pre-revolutionary buildings.
1870 · Khreshchatyk Two-storey Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk around 1870: in the foreground is the long Eisman building with its shops (No. 20 in the old numbering), and behind it the slopes of the Old Town with monastery domes…
c. 1918–1919 · Khreshchatyk Rally on Khreshchatyk A rally with flags on Khreshchatyk during the revolutionary years, c. 1918–1919, photographed by the Polish photographer Witold Marczewski. Power in Kyiv changed hands more than a…
1935 · Khreshchatyk Athletes on Khreshchatyk Columns of athletes march along Khreshchatyk during a 1935 parade as onlookers watch from the pavement. The photograph is attributed to French photographer Pierre Verger, who…
1944 · Khreshchatyk Temporary tracks on Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk cleared of rubble, with temporary tram tracks used to haul debris away, photographed by Ivan Shagin. The new street, almost twice as wide, was built up until the…
2013 · Khreshchatyk Night on Khreshchatyk Before dawn on 18 December 2013: barricaded Khreshchatyk, protesters’ tents and a laser beam over the square. The Maidan camp stood all winter.
2021 · Khreshchatyk Parade for 30 years of independence 24 August 2021: a giant national flag unfurled on Khreshchatyk during the parade for the 30th anniversary of independence, the last parade before the full-scale invasion.
1960 · Khreshchatyk near Taras Shevchenko Boulevard Rebuilt Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk near Shevchenko Boulevard in 1960: a crowded pavement along the post-war buildings and trees.
1941 · Khreshchatyk / Prorizna Street Fire on Khreshchatyk Fire at the corner of Khreshchatyk and Prorizna Street, 24 September 1941. That day a series of explosions of charges laid by Soviet sappers began, and within days the city…
1968 · Khreshchatyk at Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street Ice cream on Khreshchatyk An ice-cream seller with her refrigerated cart at the corner of Khreshchatyk and Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, a tour bus behind. Street ice cream was one of the small joys of…
1990 · 36 Khreshchatyk, Kyiv City Council The blue-and-yellow flag over Khreshchatyk …raised for the first time outside Kyiv City Council on Khreshchatyk. Crowds filled the street; a year later Ukraine was independent
1951 · 26 Khreshchatyk The new radio and TV centre The newly built radio and television centre at 26 Khreshchatyk, with an antenna on the roof. Kyiv’s first television broadcast went on air from here in November 1951; today the…
1989 · TsUM, 38 Khreshchatyk Pepsi on TsUM …outdoor advertising of the perestroika years. The store at Khreshchatyk and Bohdana Khmelnytskoho reopened after a 2010s reconstruction. The "now" photo, from October 2024, shows…
1910s · 2 Bessarabska Square Bessarabskyi Covered Market The Bessarabskyi covered market, photographed before 1917. The building survives, and the square in front of it is now a busy junction at the start of Khreshchatyk.
1860s · Bessarabska Square Bessarabka before the market Bessarabska Square in the 1860s: a vacant lot at the end of Khreshchatyk, with Krutyi Uzviz and the turn onto Kruhlouniversytetska Street lined with single-storey houses. Half a…
1936 · Bessarabska Square Traffic officer at Bessarabka …appeared at its main junctions. Behind him is the top of Khreshchatyk, whose buildings were destroyed in 1941
1961 · Maidan Nezalezhnosti Kalinin Square and the Conservatory …left the new colonnaded Conservatory, on the right post-war Khreshchatyk with its spired tower. The square was still open, with no underpasses or underground mall
1986 · Central Kyiv After Chornobyl …dust. The authorities did not cancel the May Day parade on Khreshchatyk that same day
2004 · Maidan Nezalezhnosti The Orange Maidan …tents and no crowd, but the same Independence Monument and Khreshchatyk buildings
2004 · Maidan Nezalezhnosti Maidan on 23 November 23 November 2004: the square and Khreshchatyk packed with protesters and orange flags. A tent camp soon sprang up along Khreshchatyk.